459 Quotes by Ransom Riggs

I knew there was something peculiar about you,” she said. “And I mean that as the highest compliment.

We were like astronauts floating through a starless universe.

But even grown-ups have elders who know better.

There are lots of things I don’t know about you, but I want to.” “I know what you mean,” I said. “I feel like we know each other so well in some ways, but in others it’s like we just met.

If my body was cold in the night mist, I didn’t feel it. If the sea roared in my ears, I didn’t hear it. If the rock I sat on was sharp and jagged, I hardly noticed. Everything outside the two of us was a distraction.

In that moment I was deeply grateful to the Gypsies, and for the simplemindedness of the animal part of my brain; that a hot meal and a song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while. Then.

They may love you,” she whispered, “but they’ll never understand.

Kev was out running an errand, and because asking one of his drunken regulars to chaperone me seemed like a bad idea, I went into the nearest shop to ask someone who was at least gainfully employed. The door read FISHMONGER. I pushed it open to find myself cowering before a bearded giant in a blood-soaked apron. He left off decapitating fish to glare at me, dripping cleaver in hand, and I vowed never again to discriminate against the intoxicated. “What.

Even under ordinary circumstances, I still might find a way to live an extraordinary life.